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This, too, shall pass

I just wrote "This too shall pass" On my whatsapp status and my smart friend made a meme with his selfie and wrote "This shall too pass". I know he made it to tell me that I wrote a broken english. Yup I know, now I'm living in my little hometown while he far away in Sydney where people speak english. But I think I should make it clear with him. It's not a wrong sentence (if it can consider as a sentence). It comes from a beautiful story from medieval levent (Persian, Hebrew and Turkey) around 1200AD. The proverb means that all material conditions, whether good or bad, are transient. This proverb has the ability to make the happy person sad and the sad person happy because of the realization that both the 'best and worst of times' will soon pass. Here's the story of a Dervish (tariqat or in China monk travellers, maybe same as " Sufi) A dervish arrives a village after a long and tiring travel. He asks if there is someone who can accommodate